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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 28

Provisions supplemental to section 27.

28.(1) Where in any proceedings for an offence against section 27 it is proved
that the parent or guardian of the child or young person is engaged in any
trade or business of such a nature as to require him to travel from place to
place and that the child or young person has attended a school at which he was
a registered pupil as regularly as the nature of the trade or business of the
parent or guardian permits, the person against whom the proceedings were
brought shall be acquitted; but in the case of a child or young person who has
attained the age of six the person against whom the proceedings were brought
shall not be entitled to be acquitted under this subsection unless he proves
that the child has made at least one hundred attendances during the period of
twelve months ending with the date on which the proceedings were instituted.

(2) The power of the Ministry of Education to make regulations under the
enactments relating to education shall include a power to make regulations as
to the issue of certificates of attendance for the purpose of subsection (1).

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